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People, community and memory
  • Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    The Grantham Journal (Saturday, 11th May 1945) The church bells rang in Bottesford on Surrender Day (VE Day), immediately after Winston Churchill’s proclamation. Bottesford bell ringers rang an opening peal of 360 changes of Grandsire Double and further ringing included “firing a victory salute”. Every seat was occupied in church for a thanksgiving service on the Tuesday evening ...
  • Village Voice digital archive
    Village Voice digital archive
    Copies of all the past issues of the newsletter are held here, for you to read.
  • Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    This book is now available online via this web-page
  • Bottesford Local History Society
    Bottesford Local History Society
    We look forward to seeing you at our meetings, monthly, every second Thursday, Sept to May, 7.30, Fuller Room, Old School, Grantham Road, Bottesford  NG13 0DF £2.50 on the night, annual subscription £10.00
  • Muston School in 1940
    Muston School in 1940
    Remembered by Gerald Coy
  • Our WW1 servicemen
    Our WW1 servicemen
    A Roll of Honour of the men from Bottesford and Muston who served with the armed forces during the First World War, those who died doing their duty and those who survived the fighting.
  • Explore our Online Archive
    Explore our Online Archive
    road men at their ease outside the Red Lion, Grantham Road
  • Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Learn about the history of this beautiful Grade-1 Listed church: Buy the Book!

This website is a living history of the parish of Bottesford and Muston in Leicestershire. The editors are all members of the Bottesford History Group.

Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about Bottesford, past and present. Find out how you can contribute your own words and pictures.

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  • George William Bend

    George William Bend

    A little house on the Saskatchewan prairie
  • The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    When Ben Jonson Came to Bottesford
  • A Bad Man from Bottesford

    A Bad Man from Bottesford

    The Criminal Career of Henry Rouse
  • Frederick Kenneth Bend

    Frederick Kenneth Bend

    326530, 'A' Sqn. Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps: killed 24th October 1942, El Alamein
  • A Saucy tale - from Easthorpe to the Houses of Parliament

    A Saucy tale - from Easthorpe to the Houses of Parliament

    Did you know that HP Sauce came originally from Bottesford?
  • Field View - former residents

    Field View - former residents

    High Street Bottesford
  • Charles Janson Smith D.S.C.

    Charles Janson Smith D.S.C.

    Commander, HMS Aurora, killed 30th October 1943 in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Richard Edward Walford

    Richard Edward Walford

    Major, Warwickshire Regiment and Queen's West Surrey Regiment, killed in Italy, 1943.
  • Herbert Canham

    Herbert Canham

    Private 4803539 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, died in Tunisia 4th March, 1943
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  • The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    When Ben Jonson Came to Bottesford
  • Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Women's Land Army Workers in Bottesford WW2
  • Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Now available
  • George William Bend

    George William Bend

    A little house on the Saskatchewan prairie
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